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Having problems with your Acer Aspire 7720-6844 Notebook ?

Cursor jumps around and typing can be almost impossible at times

\015 I have an acer aspire 7720G laptop and have recently installed windows 7, i also had it running briefly on linux mint and had same problem . When typing cursor moves back up page and i have to then take it back to where i was click it and start again usually having to fix errors where its typed over previous words. This didnt happen when I was using Vista believe it or not!!\015

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Seems to me an incompatible keyboard driver...\015\012the best operating system till now (after linux) is windows XP\015\012dont mess with vista or win 7 you will get many problems.

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